Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
- Napoleon Bonaparte Life is like a movie--since there aren't any commercial breaks, you have to get up and go to the
bathroom in the middle of it.
-- Nick Mirov Vote early and vote often.
- Al Capone Marriage is love. Love is blind. Therefore, marriage is an institution for the blind. By working faithfully eight hours a day, you might eventually get to be a boss and work twelve
hours a day.
-- ROBERT FROST J Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other
friendships of the same intimacy. On the contrary, in friendship union is more about ideal things:
and in that When a man takes an oath, Meg, he's holding his ownself in his own hands. Like water. And if he
opens his fingers then- he needn't hope to find himself again.
-- Robert Bolt from A Man For All Seas If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry. -- Chekhov J
"I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him." (Galileo Galilei) It was very good of God to let Carlyle and Mrs Carlyle marry one another and so make only two people miserable instead of four, besides being very amusing. May you learn to perform miracles: earn a living and marry off your daughters. Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside a dog, it's too dark to read.
-- Groucho Marx If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars.
- J. Paul Getty J "It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company." (George Washington) Wind is to fire like distance is to love; it extinguishes the small and enflames the great.
-- Anonymous "Today was good. / Today was fun. / Tomorrow is another one." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) J
Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the
consequences.
-- Isadora Duncan Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to
happen to him.
-- John Barrymore - last words "Have you ever fed your pocket and starved your soul?" (Ivana Santilli, Too Deep) Is it better for a woman to marry a man who loves her than a man she loves.
-- Anonymous The gods gave man fire and he invented fire engines. They gave him love and he invented marriage. J "I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough." (M. C. Escher) If there is any one proof of a man's incompetence, it is the stagnant mentality of a worker who,
doing some small routine job in a vast undertaking, does not care to look beyond the lever of a
machi Trust, but verify.
-- Ronald Reagan J
We are all here for a spell; get all the good laughs you can.
-- Will Rogers This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold
of a hammer.
-- Will Rogers "I've never let my school interfere with my education." (Mark Twain) The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.
-- Andy Warhol Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely
been detected.
-- Oscar Wilde J Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't. -- Borge A scar nobly got, or a noble scar, is a good livery of honour; so belike is that.
-- Shakespeare, William "Pay no attention to what the critics say; there has never been set up a statue in honor of a critic." (Jean Sibelius) J
If a thing is worth doing at all, it is worth doing badly.
-- Gustav Holst, on amateur music-making Whenever I'm caught between two evils, I take the one I've never tried.
-- Mae West "The masses are far more likely to believe a big lie than several small ones." (Adolf Hitler) "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) I owe the government $3400 in taxes. So I sent them two hammers and a toilet seat.
-- Michael McShane J The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious.
-- Albert Einstein Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering. The west wasn't won on salad.
-- ND Beef Council, billboard advertisement, 1990 J
The great end of life is not knowledge, but action. What men need is as much knowledge as they
can organize for action; give them more and it may become injurious. Some men are heavy and
stupid from The gods too are fond of a joke.
- Aristotle "Mothers spend a lifetime excising from their sons the influence of their fathers." (Arthur Lotti) The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain
terrible.
-- Jean Kerr "See - one side of my face is gentle and kind, incapable of anything but love of my fellow man. The other side, the other profile, is cruel and predatory and evil, incapable of anything but lusts and J If you never want to see a man again, say, "I love you, I want to marry you, I want to have children..." - they leave skid marks. -- Rita Rudner The average Ph.D thesis is nothing but the transference of bones from one graveyard to another.
-- Frank J. Dobie, A Texan in England, 1945 There is no future in any job. The future lies in the man who holds the job.
-- George Crane J
"Don't let your ego get too close to your position, so that if your position gets shot down, your ego doesn't go with it." (Colin Powell) Jealousy is the only vice that gives no pleasure.
-- Anonymous "A wise man among the ignorant is as a beautiful girl in the company of blind men." (Saadi) And gain is gain, however small.
-- Robert Browning I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
- e e cummings J "Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." (Albert Einstein) Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, "Certainly, I can!" Then get busy and find
out how to do it.
-- Theodore Roosevelt As always, victory finds a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan.
-- Count Galeazzo Ciano, The Ciano Diaries J
Whoever is not a misanthrope at forty can never have loved mankind.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort "Have confidence that if you have done a little thing well, you can do a bigger thing well, too." (David Malcolm Storey) "Education is a vacine for violence." (Edward James Olmos) The child is the father of the man.
-- William Wordsworth Time is at once the most valuable and most perishable of all our possessions.
-- John Randolph J Coffee is a beverage that puts one to sleep when not drank.
-- Alphonse Allais With this ring I thee wed, with my body I thee worship, and with all my worldly good I thee endow.
-- Wedding Vow, Book of Common Prayer Count your age with friends but not with years.
-- Anonymous J
"Drugs have done a lot of good. A lot of good songs have been written. 'Penny Lane' is worth 10 dead kids. 'Dark Side of the Moon?' 100 dead kids. At least that many were conceived by people listening The remarkable thing about television is that it permits several million people to laugh at the same
joke and still feel lonely.
-- T. S. Eliot Hell is paved with good samaritans.
-- William M. Holden "Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared." (Eddie Rickenbacker) Imitation is the sincerest form of television.
-- Fred Allen J Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're entitled to a little fun first. In the sciences, we are now uniquely privileged to sit side by side with the giants on whose
shoulders we stand.
-- Gerald Holton The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
-- Mark Twain J
Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo... What would you attempt if you knew you could not fail?
-- Robert Schuller If a relationship is to evolve, it must go through a series of endings.
-- Lisa Moriyama Conceit causes more conversation than wit.
-- LaRouchefoucauld Too bad all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving cabs and cutting hair.
-- George Burns J Marriage is very much like a violin; after the sweet music is over, the strings are attached. Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're
entitled to a little fun first.
-- Anonymous The mistakes are all waiting to be made.
- chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower (1887-1956) on the game's opening position J
"You make 'em, I amuse 'em." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, on children) Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase our good deeds.
-- Buddha Beware of men on airplanes. The minute a man reaches thirty thousand feet, he immediately
becomes consumed by distasteful sexual fantasies which involve doing uncomfortable things in
those tiny toil Education is the state-controlled manufacture of echoes.
-- Norman Douglas There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him asleep.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson J "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does
come, we no longer exist.
-- Epicurus We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time.
- Vince Lombardi J
